{"id":740299,"date":"2026-06-16T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:24:15","slug":"mlb-critical-of-giants-players-who-wrote-bible-verses-on-pride-night-caps-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740299\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB critical of Giants players who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball has issued a statement critical of players who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night hats after an incident at a San Francisco Giants<\/a> game last week.<\/p>\n

MLB celebrates Pride month during June and most teams choose a home game to acknowledge the LGBTQ community and its baseball fans. The Giants, who are based in a city with a large LGBTQ population, often make an extra effort.<\/p>\n

However, those efforts often clash with the league\u2019s players, many of whom come from conservative, religious backgrounds. During Friday\u2019s game against the Chicago Cubs, Giants pitchers Landen Roupp and JT Brubaker wrote Bible verses on their Pride caps. Another Giants pitcher, Sam Hentges, chose not to wear the cap at all.<\/p>\n

On Monday, MLB issued a statement on the subject. \u201cThe writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,\u201d said MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney.<\/p>\n

Roupp wrote \u201cGen 9:12-16\u201d on his cap. The verse contains a reference to a rainbow, one of the symbols of Pride. The verse reads in part: \u201cWhenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

He denied that his decision to write on his cap was malicious.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no hate at all. It\u2019s just what I stand for, and what I stand on: I believe in God,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just about God\u2019s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy. That\u2019s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that. And I\u2019m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want, and express what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hentges said he did not appreciate being told to wear the cap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just something that I feel like I was forced to support when I don\u2019t morally support it. There wasn\u2019t hatred behind it. I think that\u2019s kind of something that\u2019s misinterpreted,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t hate the LGBTQ community. It\u2019s just something I believed and talked with teammates and family, and they supported it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giants manager Tony Vitello said his players \u201chave the freedom to do what they think is best.\u201d However, he added that: \u201cit\u2019s pretty impressive how the Giants, as an organization, try and embrace the entire community. We don\u2019t want to be divided, but you can divide it up into certain sections, if you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants have said they remain committed to Pride Night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe San Francisco Giants are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ+ community. Baseball<\/a> should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations,\u201d the team said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that. Those choices do not change our organization\u2019s commitment to inclusion, belonging, and creating a welcoming environment for all. We remain grateful to our fans, partners, employees, players, and coaches who help make Pride Night a meaningful celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball has issued a statement critical of players who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-740299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}